suctorially

English

Adverb

suctorially (comparative more suctorially, superlative most suctorially)

  1. In a suctorial manner.
    • 1984, F. E. Round, The Ecology of Algae, page 395:
      As far as I am aware, this is the only group of animals feeding suctorially on algae and presumably digesting or rejecting the non-chloroplast fraction of the cytoplasm but retaining the chloroplasts in an intact and active state in the digestive diverticula.
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